Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Emma and the crew discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Woke War III.
Aside:
She says she believes in freedom.
Just not in letting persons vote.
Borderline Disorder 0
Jim Wright minces no words about the Republicans’ reaction to President Biden’s visit to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Down on the Animal Farm . . . 0
Jeffery Leving considers Florida Man’s attempt to prevent the teaching of America’s history and reminds us that George Orwell knew whereof he writ (emphasis added):.
It’s ironic that one of the arguments DeSantis is making in favor of limiting what can be taught in schools is that these actions are in the interest of academic freedom — when the exact opposite appears to be true. It reminds me of another Orwell quote, from his novel “Animal Farm”: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
The Great Erasure 0
Congressperson Alma Adams sees precedent for current attempt by the New Secesh to pretend that slavery wasn’t and racism isn’t.
The Twitter Files Fails
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(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
What the Right Fears Most 0
Knowledge.
The Dividing Line 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun looks at Sara Huckabee Sanders’s “response” to President Biden’s State of the Union address and suggests that she got part of it right. A snippet:
We agree. Though we also think she missed a few adjectives, like dangerous, ignorant, racist, unconstitutional and un-American. The past president’s apologist also needs to take a good long look in the mirror before she starts decrying crazies.
Follow the link for context.
Addressing the Issues 0
Seth takes a look at Biden’s State of the Union address and Republicans’ response to the issues Biden addressed.
And, in related news . . . .
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun parses Florida Man’s playbook; they conclude he is implementing a three-pronged strategy to bring back Jim Crow, Here are the prongs:
- The first is you must separate groups of people as much as possible.
- Importantly, an essential piece of isolating people from on another is not allowing the history and reality of other people to be discussed.
- The third essential element needed to create a society that will tolerate racism is to deny the oppressed group equal access to that core of democracy: the ballot box.
Follow the link for their reasoning.
(Not that there’s any kind of pattern that one might discern in recent events.
Base Desires 0
Thom and Dean Obeidallah discuss why Republicans don’t like Representative Ilhan Omar and what it says about the Republican Party.
Calling Out the Craven 0
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had it with Republicans’ racism, bigotry, and hypocrisy.
Not that they care.
As I have mentioned before, Richard Nixon’s racist “Southern Strategy” has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. The Republican Party is now the party of the New Secesh.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.